Otho R. Singleton

Otho Robards Singleton ( born October 14, 1814 near Nicholasville, Kentucky; † January 11, 1889 in Washington DC) was an American politician who represented the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives and in the Konföderiertenkongress.

After the public school visit Singleton graduated at the College in Bardstown, and at the Law Faculty of the University of Lexington. He was admitted to the bar in 1838 and commenced practice as a lawyer in Canton.

He held from 1846 to 1847 as a Member of the House of Representatives of Mississippi His first political mandate; 1848 to 1854 he was a member of the State Senate. March 4, 1853 to March 3, 1855 Democrat Singleton was also the first deputy in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. The attempt of re-election he failed in 1854.

On March 4, 1857 Singleton then returned to Congress before he shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War, resigned his mandate on 12 January 1861. In the Confederate States, he continued his political career. From 1862 to 1865 he was a member of the House of Representatives in the first and second Konföderiertenkongress.

As Mississippi after the defeat of the Confederacy again received his full national rights, Otho Singleton represented his country one more time in the U.S. House of Representatives. He took his seat there true of 4 March 1875 to 3 March 1887. Two years after his retirement from Congress, he died in Washington.

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